I saw people talking about it on a Youtube video. When you see the kind of things parents groups lobby against, it wouldn't surprise me really. Apparently they also convinced Lego to stop putting alternate builds in sets (which is a crying shame), because they complained their kids couldn't build them - as if that was their purpose... I'm not sure how it works though... and maybe it's just a rumour.

I am going to need so many of the Council of Elrond set. I bet those new arches will be expensive enough on BL that I might as well get the whole thing multiple times and sell off the figures I don't want.

The sets don't look as good and detail on the soldiers aren't as nice as the kingdom ones. They should of brought back the goblins and or at least made like forest out post or something to do with woods men. But yeah i agree these will be good army builders and stuff for the horses will be nice. They might of just needed something to fill in for the kingdom ones tell the came up with another Fantasy style of sets.

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I've read suggestions that the ship is to fill a current hole in the current Lego lineup (all themes) for a 'pirate ship' type that parents often look for. I'd guess that most would probably prefer a traditional pirate ship to a creepy looking bat-boat though.

This line doesn't look quite as spectacular as the previous... I'm not too fond of the faction-specific torsos; the blue with crown sigil makes it impossible for me to use them for anything except for a lord or king with the colour blue and a crown as part of his banner... I hope there are some generic armor torsos I haven't seen yet... I wish TLC would depart from the cliché blue and red factions and bring in some colours we haven't had in a while like green (not dark), purple, orange, gold, etc.

Not much in the LOTR area either...

Did I post on this already? I can't remember lol

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